So what will it be?
We haven’t even broached the subject of safety degradation in the current climate of uncertainty. Once again safety is thought of somehow isolated from the current narrative.
“Building a workplace culture of high trust and implementing practices that involve employees in solving operational problems are expected to create a conducive climate for negotiating collective bargaining agreements expeditiously and with less need for detailed work rules (Katz, Kochan, and Gobeille 1983). The alternative of maintaining a more traditional adversarial relationship at the workplace risks setting in motion a self-perpetuating low-trust/high-conflict labor-management relationship both in day-to-day workplace relations and in contract negotiations. The evidence from other industries suggests that low trust and high conflict combine to have substantial negative effects on performance outcomes (Ichniowski, Kochan, Levine, Olson, and Strauss 1996)”
As a side note I know of several pilots that have reurned from a J* MOU that probably would have stayed knowing of the current machinations in QF. The only thing that keeps them here is getting into a wide body.